~ Non-Norse Poetry by Others ~

Path of Futility

An ecstasy of blood and pain
Faces are showered in red rain
I’ve seen the war I’m doomed to fight
In horrific dreams every night

I know what you want to make me
And it’s not what I want to be
My life is not yours to decide
How I should think and feel inside
I won’t be swayed into your way
Of politics and battle’s fray
There’s no side to which my heart’s cleft
My life shall not be bereft

I don’t care if you don’t like me
Your friendship would not bring me glee
There’s nothing for you I would do
I have only contempt for you

You made me drown into a sea
Of confusion and jealousy
You shan’t make my feelings collide
With the mind my maker supplied
I don’t see life in shades of gray
I see it as constant decay
I won’t be victim to your theft
And gladly take whatever’s left

I know all I can feel is rage
Forever locked into a cage
I’m doomed to fight a nonstop war
And I have nothing to implore.

Walk this path of futility
And I can only guarantee
That you will have earned my contempt
From nothing shall you be exempt.

© Justin Douglas Blackford

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